The GWO Offshore Enhanced Safety Training - Refresher Package is designed to give participants the knowledge, skills, and abilities to work safely in an offshore wind turbine environment, with advanced first aid skills by including GWO Enhanced First Aid in place of GWO First Aid.

This package is suitable for those who currently hold GWO certificates and are looking to refresh their training.

If you are looking to work onshore only, take a look at our GWO Onshore Enhanced Safety Training - Refresher Package

• GWO Working at Height Refresher (Safe Working Practices, Pre-Use Inspection and Use of Basic PPE, Safe Evacuation Techniques, Rescue of a casualty at height)

• GWO Manual Handling Refresher (Identifying and treating common injuries, Understanding and using essential manual handling principles such as the hierarchy of control and the TILE principle, Safe manual handling posture and techniques in a variety of scenarios)

• GWO Fire Awareness Refresher (Understanding how fires start and spread, Risks and Hazards in a Wind Turbine Environment, How to Prevent fires on a wind turbine, Safe evacuation in the event of a fire, Safe and correct use of fire blankets and fire extinguishers)

• GWO Enhanced First Aid Refresher (First aid legislation, anatomy and physiology, primary and secondary surveys, life-threatening conditions, other serious injuries and illnesses, managing incidents, basic use of stretchers, and pain relief)

• GWO Sea Survival Refresher (Safety culture and legacy, cold water immersion, personal LSA and PPE, life Saving appliances and PPE, SAR and GMDSS, controlled entry into the water from TP ladder, individual and collective swimming techniques, correct usage of life raft, emergency descent by constant rate descender, safety on board vessels, man overboard procedures, procedure for transfer between crew transfer vessel and wind turbine generator transition piece, safe transfer between crew transfer vessel and wind turbine generator transition piece)

Yes, this course does include the use of non-medicinal and medicinal pain relief in line with national legislation, and includes the use of Entonox and Penthrox.

Participants will also learn and practice the ability to place a casualty into a stretcher of a type likely to be found on wind farms. However, the course does not cover the use of additional lifting and rescue equipment to raise or lower stretchers. If this is necessary for your organisation, you should also book GWO Advanced Rescue.

• You must hold valid GWO Sea Survival, Working at Heights, Enhanced First Aid, Fire Awareness and Manual Handling certificates (or refresher versions) to take this course.

  • The refresher course must be completed no later than 1 day before the expiry date on your current certificates. E.g. if your current certificates expire on the 31st January, then your refresher course must be completed by the 30th January at the latest

  • If you are unsure if your certificate will be valid, please get in touch with us

• You must be 18 or over to undertake this course

• Participants must have a WINDA ID (to obtain a WINDA ID, participants can register for free here)

• You must complete a medical self-declaration before undertaking the training (this will be sent to you after you have booked)

• You must be able to speak English to a reasonable level for course material comprehension and safety purposes

• You must have an accepted form of photographic ID. We accept the following forms of ID:

  • Passport

  • Driving license

  • A PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)

  • A Blue Badge

  • A biometric residence permit (BRP)

  • A Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)

  • A HM Armed Forces Veteran Card (MOD form 100)

  • A national identity card issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein

• Participants will be assessed via a written test and their practical performance during assessment scenarios

• This course is certified by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO)

• All participants will receive an electronic certificate uploaded to WINDA

• Certificates are valid for 2 years

• Refresher courses must be completed no later than 1 day before the expiry date on your current certificate. E.g. if your current certificate expires on the 31st January, then your refresher course must be completed by the 30th January at the latest

• If a refresher course is completed less than 60 days before the expiry date, the original expiry date is maintained

• All PPE required for the course will be provided, except for safety footwear

  • We do provide basic gloves, however if you would prefer to bring your own then please feel free to do so

• Lunch is provided on most of our courses (the exception being if you are doing a course which begins later in the afternoon)

  • Unfortunately, we may be unable to cater for gluten and dairy-free, and certain allergies due to our suppliers

  • If you do have an allergy or food intolerance, please get in touch with us to discuss this before your course date

• For GWO Sea Survival, you will need:

  • A warm change of clothes for after the course

  • Swimming clothes such as trunks or a swimsuit to wear under the transfer/immersion suits, or clothes you don't mind getting wet

  • A towel

• For all other courses, you will need:

  • Safety footwear (safety boots or safety shoes)

  • You must wear trousers

• You bring an accepted form of photographic ID. We accept the following forms of ID:

  • Passport

  • Driving license

  • A PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)

  • A Blue Badge

  • A biometric residence permit (BRP)

  • A Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)

  • A HM Armed Forces Veteran Card (MOD form 100)

  • A national identity card issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein